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ArcticDagger@feddit.dk to Science@mander.xyz · 9 months ago

LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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ArcticDagger@feddit.dk to Science@mander.xyz · 9 months ago
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Large language models exhibit racial prejudices on the basis of dialect.
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    shit goes in, shit comes out

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      Would you like the opportunity to explain why African American English is “shit” and comparable to racism?

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        i meant shit as in racist internet writings, which the llms are taught with

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          Ohh sorry. Like the model was trained on bad inputs

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            homie-what-set-you-from <- the input

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        No, the ‘shit’ is the prejudice in the training data that claims negative stereotypes about people who speak in African American English.

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        People be downvoting things or no reason 😑

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